Why is Nissan the month of Miracles? החודש הזה לכם A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in theb the name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on which was in the year 37 years ago the went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of the second day of the month of Nissan a year later in the year t which is exactly 36 years ago so again the discourse is based on the verse where it says this month is going to be for you the head of all the months it's the first for all the months of the year and this is the special par that we read from the Torah in honor of shabas so the re brings from the re who was celebrating his yard site on the second day of Nissan in AIC discourse with this title of the Year tough R which is basically over a 100 years ago and his question he asks is the verse says the head of the months and then it says re who it's the first of all of all the month months of the year so the question he asked is why does it say it says right afterwards it's the first of all the months so what's the purpose of saying the head of all the months he bring the brings the teaching of K based on the verse where it says that this month to use and it says what does that mean it's referring to the month of now why it say rash because this is the month of Nissan and there's no other that's the month of what does that mean practically that means when the day comes when it's appropriate to be and we know it's you cannot go ahead and add another month to the year and that's why it says this day ises that means once this day comes it's and we can't add to the year and he continues on that discourse that we learn from this verse not only you can't you make it another month in in New Year but you even can go ahead and make the month bigger you can't add a day in the month because we know that you can add you can you can add a month in the year for for specific for for re for specific reasons to to align the different months but you cannot go ahead and add a day in the month and what happens is when a day of comes then what happens is we do not go ahead and add another another month or year to make it um a which is a year that has an extra month in it that's what he brings says to understand this why we why can't we do it what's the reason why when comes boom we're done we can't add to the year and he explains with with an introduction that we have to understand why does this section of the Torah where God is giving us the Commandment to establish the calender starting with the month of Nissan so why does this say specifically after we left Egypt so right away you can ask the question what do you mean this this um section of in the Torah where it talks about establishing was given to us before we went out of Egypt nevertheless in that discourse he says it's it was given to us after we went out of Egypt so right away in the footnote right here explains that later on discourse um the re is going to explain why he calls this um um why is it considered that that we have this Torah portion after we learned left Egypt even though technically it was before so later on the discourse there puts in a footnote we answer it and it's actually a beautiful answer what what let's not get ahead of ourselves and we will get back to that to to to clarify um why that's so but irrelevant uh his point he's trying to make is why is it that the Mitzvah of establishing and specifically the month of n why is that after the so to speak the Commandment of going out of Egypt so he explains over there that the par um is mainly it's actually the beginning of the Torah this Torah portion it's actually the beginning of the Torah how's the beginning of Torah it's in the middle of the Torah so he says we know Rashi says clearly that the Torah really should have started so if that's the case why did he start with the creation of the world so Rashi explains the reason why he starts with that even though he should have start is to teach the power of created the world and therefore because of created he could do whatever he wants with the world and he gave the Jewish people the land of Israel in other words but the fact is if not for that reason where should the Torah start with the first MIT we received which is establishing the calendar in other words so all the Torah portions before what is it talking about it's talking about the revelations of the World aam created the world it's his world and all the Revelation took took place in God's world and from starting withes and there on it talks about the revelations of the Toyah Which is higher than the revelations of the world and in order that you should have the revelations of the toy you first have to have the preparation of unfortunately going into Exile in Egypt and going out of and going out of Egypt and that's why the minute we left Egypt and again like he's explain later what does it mean the minute we left Egypt um because technically we received before so we have as a preparation to receive in the Torah and we have the we have thees which starts the beginning of all the revelations of the T So re saying over here is as follows that that is the beginning of the Torah and the fact that the Torah should have started the only reason why start with with everything before is because God wanted to establish ownership of the world and because he has owners world he can give it he can give the land of Israel whatever he wants so in other words basically everything until is talking about God's revelation in the world start something new the revelation of God through Torah and in order to receive the T we have to unfortunately have to go we were in Exile in Egypt and we had to leave Egypt and we have to go to mat TOA and now we're getting the F the first piece of tah now so in other words we seeing clearly there's a major difference between the revelation of God in the world and the revelation of God through tah so in order to understand the tremendous quality of the reev of toy so first he explains the the the the the quality of the revelation of God in the world because a fact is like this the Revelation in the world is higher in the world so he's saying is there's three levels here there's world the world physical world then there's God being revealed in the world that's already an upgrade and then there's God being revealed through Toyo three levels in other words what does that mean explains as follows the world is a place which is finite you can measure it from here to there it takes time to go from one place to the other in other words just like the Heaven and the Earth down here literally this physical world it's finite it's a finite world as we know it says to go from the Earth to the heaven it takes 500 years and the the width of every every Heaven Etc the same thing also in reference to Heaven and Earth in the worlds of Bria y AIA even the spiritual worlds is also finite now the source of the finite in the worlds of Brio what's the source that everything is finite comes from the vessels of the world of in other words what's the source of the fact that there's limitations in the world it comes from the vessel of the world of ail so what do we see from here that even the vessels of the world of Villas and if we know the world of aill is a Godly world it's eight close to hem but even though it's Godly already in the vessels of aus you have limitations it's finite so that is the world the world is finite the source comes from the vessels ofus however the Revel now we're talking about the second level the Revelation in the worlds what does it mean the revelation of the worlds is referring to the light and the cabalistic terminology it's called the the light of the line that comes into the world and what is the source of the Revelation again which comes from the light of the C the source is and I'll say HEB I'll translate Os from the essence of the infinite light of before the sson and that is obviously in that level it's it's infinite but because it came into the vessels it comes in to some kind of form and shape and and and and it's divided up now but this that it comes into a vessel and gets different has a shape and has a form and has limitations because the fact is even on its own before it came into the vessels also it's also finite why is that because this when it comes down from the infinite light of before the how does it come down to this world it comes through it has to pass through a ssum it has to pass through a contraction of light so when it goes through the ssum the contraction of light it starts getting um into a a finite level where you can start measuring it based on the vessel and the worlds it has to go into and therefore after it comes in the world um through many many different and many many uh different lays of concealment and and different levels which is again even before the world of aus but then it comes into the vessels of aus and it comes in there then go it comes in in a finite space and through that it it gets drawn down through the the the screen so to speak between the world about even so to speak in in in this world to give them an existence which is a finite existence now so this is deep stuff so D saying like this you have the physical world the physical world is finite what's the source of the physical world that's finite from the vessels of aute that's the world then you have the Revelation in the world which comes from the and that comes from the light before the ssum so so that's how how come it's finite because when it goes through all the um and all the different levels it becomes finite that we that we that we there something we we can we can we can connect to because we're finite people however in its source is it's it's it source is much higher so another like this the world source is the vessels of aus the light source is the light before the never goes on to explain it so this is why when he says in theic discourse that the Revelation in the world which again that's the second level comes from where the light of the cob that comes in it so he why is he saying that because he wants to show you the [Music] tremendous um idea that even the Revelation in the worlds is also infinite so it's on one hand it's finite on one hand it's coming from the from before the tum from which is infinite so how do the two go together explains like this how could it be that it could be infinite but then it comes finite and explains as follows since the light of the C I'll say HEB the it's always connected to its source what's its source like we learned before in the infinite light before the Tsum now even though it's connected through and go it's already connect went through a ssum but nevertheless even after it goes through the ssum it Still Remains connected to its source and it's and it and it has a component of its source so therefore even after this infinite light that went through the T Tsum so even afterwards when it when when it goes into a vessel and it goes into an internal way because the fact is it gives it its life force it doesn't get really affected by it and it stays connected to its source so yes it comes into a vessel that's finite but the V The Vessel doesn't have an impact on it it states true to its source now this that the light comes into the vessel and gets involved in an internal way just like for example the energy of the soul that comes into the body where it gets involved in the internal way so what really is it's really it's it's reference really to the vessel The Vessel part is finite in other words The Vessel receives its light light from the light in an internal way just like that the body receives it from the soul so it know but so from The Vessel perspective yeah it it receives a light that it can handle it but from the light perspective even after it goes into a finite vessel it Still Remains disconnected and the same thing applies with with with with with Creation in the world in other words the energy that exist in in in the create the creation the created beings which is in the level of Light which basically is array an array of the light of the that line that comes in so even though it comes into the things that is that's getting into the thing that was created but nevertheless says it stays disconnected and not only that say take it a step deeper that even the energy and the and the the things that were created so you have in there of the light which is actually infinite so again there's two parts when the the world again comes from the vessels of illus that's finite the light that comes into vessel so the vessel receives something something that that it can handle but the light remains true to its source so it's almost like two opposite and explains powerfully the the the the connection of the energy of the light with the body and the body we know the source is from The Vessel it's literally it's really you're connecting two opposites I mean it's it's hard it it it doesn't it's hard to comprehend it that you can have two opposites like for example it's either right or it's left and here he's saying it's right and left together what do you mean that this light on one hand goes into a vessel and the vessel feels it finite and the other hand the light remains loyal to its infinite part now this is all in reference to the Revelation in the world which we call the that comes in the world and the way it goes into the vessel and into the worlds how much more so the light before it comes into the vessel and before it comes in the in the world cuz the revealed part in the world is also this level and that level is obviously infinite now so why you calling it finite if if you're saying it's really infinite that's because when it went pass through the syum so now it became finite and it's measured that the world can receive it so it's all about the world receiving it but the light really didn't change so so far we learned two levels the world energy comes from the vessel that's finite then you have the light in the world which comes from the light which comes from which is connected always to its source so there's two components almost like two opposite on one hand when it comes into the vessel The Vessel receives and experiences a finite light but the light didn't change the light is still infinite and still connected to its source and that's the light that comes in the world but from here you see the tremendous upgrade and the tremendous quality and the tremendous power and energy of the revelation of to Which is higher than the revelation of the worlds saying how can you get stronger than that and he explains because when you learn tah tah has within it and what gets revealed with through tah is not only the light but the and I'll say it in Hebrew the essence of the infinite light of before the Tsum powerful so now let's recap before we go further and deeper into this you have the world that gets its energy from the finite light it's finite comes from you have a light in the world that comes from where from the which it obviously comes from before the Tsum then through the Tsum there's two components a one hand The Vessel receives a finite package but the other the light stay stays true to its source is not is is totally connected to the essence of the infin light and he continues on this discourse to explain that this that the the C which we said on one hand is connected to the infinite part and on the other hand it gets gets goes into a vessel which is finite and even though it comes through AUM but nevertheless it's also sourced in the before the why is that because when Hashem decided to create the world this is before any so he had a vision before the tum everything that's going to be afterwards how how can that be because he had a plan before the timum how the world is going to exist the way he wanted it to be and he explains in that discourse that even the source of hashem's plan of a finite world and this this was taking place before the Tsum it means he had a plan in in potential or like in on his will it applies where to all the revelations in the world so even though that the light of before the temp has no comparison to the world you took that infinite light and in order for it to come down in order to come down into this world that the light should have come kind of a connection to the world the so there had to be a component where there was a simpton where literally the light was was cleared off but nevertheless in the essence of hasem so to speak it's a revelation which has a connection to the world so from here we see even greater the re the Revelation that takes place in the Torah because through T you literally have the revelation of the essence of the infinite part of hem which is even higher of any connection to the world so saying is even a step deeper is like this the even though it sources in in in the essence of the part of hem but it's over there where already had a vision so even though it's infinite but he had a vision for the world to is even higher than that vision for the world and you can say that this study explains in theic discourse that the intent of Hashem giving the tah is to draw down into this world the infinite light of before the T in Hebrew the intent of the T was to draw in before the even though that the upgrade of toyra is that even in the infinite light of before than Simpson get what gets drawn in there the revelation of the essence of of the infinite part of hem which has a connection to the world so what's the point the point is that even when you're drawing that light which has a connection to the world it has some kind it comes through a syum now even though that the syum that took place in this light is called the first syum the first contraction but nevertheless it's brought down in many places that if even before the first syum there were many many more contractions of light it didn't just wasn't only before that there was also in other words besides the fact that drawing down the light which has some kind of connection to the world and it's coming down from a light which which is above the connection the world and it comes through that that symptom but nevertheless even that light that comes in also has some kind of there has to be some kind of contraction of light from one level to the next why is that because even this light the light which has no connection to the world but nevertheless it's being drawn down to the world and beforehand it was it was connected and was it was it was part of the essence of of of of hem and especially you can say that when we say that was in part of the essence of hem and it was means it's connect was part of the essence of hasem and where where there's no level of light so what do you see from there that drawing down a light in a place where it gets revealed how does it come it come ultimately everything comes through AUM so even the highest level of of light that he's saying the source of the Earth have is from the highest place but ultimately there are some however based said you can say that this this that he says in the discourse that the intent of giving the T what's the old intent is to give to the light of before the Tsum what is he trying to say not only to the light of before the first Tsum but even before any T that took place so is now explaining a step a step further and a step deeper is that even the that exists before the is only in reference to the light that came into the world however the light that comes into the tah and this is amazing because we learned TOA is comes in the light before any not before it's connected literally to the essence of so when you learn her you're literally connecting to the essence of So based on this explains now we're going to explain why he says discourse that was said right after we left Egypt but see what what's the question like we brought it before already it says specifically in the verse where in Egypt not only in the Torah is it before we left Egypt but it says hasm told them while we were in Egypt so what does it mean when he's saying was told us after we left Egypt so he explains over here as follows this the re explains the discourse that was said when after we left after Egypt what does he mean he he means to say after we learned about the the the instruction and the story of going out of Egypt the way the story is said in the tah and in other words after Hashem gave all the Commandments in the T to who to par they should CH the Jewish people out of Egypt up until literally the last warning of the 10 plague and after right after said everyone should leave so what happened right after that then we Hades so saying like this until what happened before that so you have from the creation of the world Etc but you have where Hashem you have the story where hasem instructed par to let the people leave one warning another warning that each plague until finally he told them about the 10 plague and then par let the Jewish people leave so technically it took a while to leave but the in the story of the Torah where instructs took place before and then we have nowes what does that mean there explain to this the the upgrade of the revelation of toyra over the regulation in the world like he explained in the discourse it's also in reference to the revelation of the of the world way it's in the Torah so what we learn till now there's the world finite there's the revelation of the world which comes from the earth which comes from before the tum and it's two there's two components there part where it comes into a finite world but the Earth is the light is connected to to the in to the infinite power of hem and then you have the light of the tur which is totally connecting from par the story about God going out of Egypt which is dealing with the light of in the world we a world of Egypt we have to go out that is like the level of the light of hem in the world and the light of T is off the charts and that's why he brings in in the discourse what Rashi says that the truth is a should have started where and why did he start in Braes why is that because even the the part where the T say Braes beginning hasm created the world and also you have the stories of the Patriarchs and the matriarchs the way they are in T it's only introduction to the ultimate of because that's where the heavy revelation of T begins and therefore even in reference to going out of Egypt which is a preparation for MRA So it's talking about going out going out going out of Egypt the way it's in the Torah so Bas explains and he beautifully he says like this he'd likeed to connect this in other words the the revelation of tah Which is higher than the Revelation in the world even the way the the way way that the way the the Revelation world is is spoken about in T and he like to connect to what we explained before that what is the revelation of I'll say it in Hebrew the essence of the infinite light Which is higher than any all happen afterwards to is connected to that level and even the contractions that took place after the first ssum that means it's there's there's nothing it's the essence of the infin T is connect to the highest level so you based on what it's known that the whole tah even the stories in the Torah come before the world what does it mean it comes before the world because where does the world start from the world starts from the first contraction of light the to which comes before is the from before theum not only that you can say that since even in the light before theum you already have um the the the the the the beginning of the source of the fin of the world which basically is a t that comes before the world that is in the level of light of of of light before it has any connection to the world and that also applies to the stories in the which is before so what's the power ofes which is the main part of is the revelation of the essence of the infinite light before any contraction before any before any T so now based on this explains beautifully that's why it says this month is why is that because what happened then we got the revelation of the essence of the infinite part of hem through this Mitzvah so therefore since what took place this is the month which means right now you have the tremendous revelation of the essence of the infinite part of hem so what happens is when comes guess what you cannot go ahead and add a month month to the year why because what is year year is time time is finite it means it's referring to a light which has to do with the world and since how do you draw down a light which has connected to the world it comes through through my from while us doing our part so therefore what so therefore we're able to add a month in the year for for specific reasons so therefore that the the the May should be in appropriate place so that's as long as we have the power but what happens when comes along and now you have the revelation of what of the the essence of the infinite power Which is higher than anything that we can achieve so how how can you go ahead and play with the year like he explains at length because year is finite once you're in infinite who who plays with years who plays with finite and that's why because is connected to the that's why the month of Nissan is the month of redemption because as we know in Nissan the month of niss we went out of Egypt and the month of niss we're going to going we're going to go out of galut we're going to go out of Exile because rede because Redemption means that then we're not going to have to go ahead and hide and shy away from anything we're going to have the full revelation of the essence of the infinite power of hem without any garments so is the month for the greatest Miracles and re finish he says should be the will of hem this should happen very very quickly in the month of Nissan of this year and we'll eat in the temple from the different sacrifices from the Zim and theim and most importantly we should do it me with tremendous joy and with gladness of our heart so here again we have another powerful powerful beautiful discourse from the rebba um obviously pretty pretty deep some calistic ideas but the Reb is teaching us basically there's the world which is a finite world there's the light of God which is in the world which again has two components one hand it's connected to the finite world but it's source and infinite but through learning Toyah we can literally connect to the infinite and more importantly that practically is when the month comes of Nissan we have this powerful Revelation and that's why you can't go ahead and add anything to the year but the point is that and that's how we have the that's how we have the Redemption this month so let's hope and pray like the re says we'll have the Redemption in this month and we'll all go to we celebrate and most importantly should be done have a great and blessed week sha to